How I wish Christian teachers and leaders would talk honestly to people about sex. The other day I read an article about a video Tim Keller did for Jonathan Bethke. The article was called, “Timothy Keller Waxes Poetic About the ‘Magic’ and Pleasures of Sex in Marriage.” Now, that headline oversells the actual claims Keller makesContinue reading “Sex Is Not Arithmetic”
Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Pastor: Waiting Tables
Christianity is a meal fellowship. And ministry is table service. This is the focus and content of a remarkable chapter in Gordon W. Lathrop’s book, The Pastor: A Spirituality. And this is the chapter that, most of all, sets the liturgical traditions apart from the free churches. This is what many of us who fledContinue reading “The Pastor: Waiting Tables”
Homily for Advent I: The Day Before
The Day Before A sermon for the first Sunday in Advent, 2013 ‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the floodContinue reading “Homily for Advent I: The Day Before”
The Homily
One day the seminary students came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, our dormitory is too small. Tell us, as our president, whether we can build a new one down beside the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs.” “All right,” he told them, “go ahead.” “Please, sir, come with us,”Continue reading “The Homily”
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